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Post by alpha128 on Nov 21, 2021 20:59:28 GMT
Our “favorite brick building” will be coming soon at an IPad near you. At this point you've got a little more than a month to give us what every West fan wants for Xmas this year. #ComingIn2021
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Post by vrkalak on Nov 26, 2021 13:00:59 GMT
Our “favorite brick building” will be coming soon at an IPad near you. At this point you've got a little more than a month to give us what every West fan wants for Xmas this year. #ComingIn2021 Coming early 2022.
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Post by alpha128 on Nov 26, 2021 17:13:11 GMT
At this point you've got a little more than a month to give us what every West fan wants for Xmas this year. #ComingIn2021Coming early 2022. Thank you!
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Post by vrkalak on Apr 26, 2022 0:19:46 GMT
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Post by alpha128 on Apr 26, 2022 1:17:30 GMT
Thanks for sharing. BTW, when I got to the 3:49 mark, I correctly identified the episode as "The Night of a Thousand Eyes". The lightning gave it away.
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Post by vrkalak on Apr 26, 2022 12:06:35 GMT
Thanks for sharing. BTW, when I got to the 3:49 mark, I correctly identified the episode as "The Night of a Thousand Eyes". The lightning gave it away. Truth. I spotted Coffin sitting first myself.
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Post by alpha128 on Apr 26, 2022 14:57:06 GMT
Thanks for sharing. BTW, when I got to the 3:49 mark, I correctly identified the episode as "The Night of a Thousand Eyes". The lightning gave it away. Truth. I spotted Coffin sitting first myself. The title card is shown so briefly, and is so dark, that I originally mistook Coffin in his chair for a shot of the front of the train. But when I saw the lightning, I thought that has got to be "The Night of a Thousand Eyes". I searched for an image of that title card, compared it to the paused video and bingo!
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Post by vrkalak on Apr 26, 2022 21:19:41 GMT
Truth. I spotted Coffin sitting first myself. The title card is shown so briefly, and is so dark, that I originally mistook Coffin in his chair for a shot of the front of the train. But when I saw the lightning, I thought that has got to be "The Night of a Thousand Eyes". I searched for an image of that title card, compared it to the paused video and bingo! Haha, I agree, it does look like the front of the train.
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Post by alpha128 on May 10, 2022 0:41:49 GMT
TWWW fans should check out the quote thread for Brewster's Millions (1985).
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Post by alpha128 on Jun 15, 2022 1:54:32 GMT
vrkalak and other West fans may enjoy the following 12 minute animated movie. The titular character is a bounty hunter, not a Secret Service agent. But two of the four elements are included, namely beautiful women and fistfights. Parts of this animated short reminded me of certain episodes, e.g., The Night of the Arrow, not to mention the West opening titles! DC Showcase: Jonah Hex
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 12, 2022 0:21:24 GMT
I have been watching the show in exile--I got through season 2. Some archived comments:
I watched a Wild Wild West from season 2 where a guy wants to make an ocean nation and uses a bomb in the shape of a dragon to destroy ships. Finally Artemis Gordon has a disguise again--he hasn't been doing it much this season so far.
WILD WILD WEST - season 2--forgot the name but Carrol O'Connor runs a funeral home that is a front for assassins. Ross Martin's disguise in this is particularly good-impossible to recognize.
THE WILD WILD WEST - season 2 --this episode was about a living house. It was very weird.
The Wild Wild West S 2 Night of the Skulls -- I wish I was on IMDB2 because I could comment in their thread--this had the most Artie disguises so far.
The Wild Wild West season 2 Night of the Infernal Machine - someone is blowing up judges and wants to wipe out the US Supreme Court. It is interesting that the person who is scheming to kill them was a theater persona--he makes a speech about not being seen as worthy for the court due to his background in theater rather than anything traditional. I am just thinking how today's Supreme Court hearings are regarded as theater of the worst kind.
The Wild Wild West season 2 Night of the Lord of Limbo - This series started off strongly as a James Bond in the Old West show but seems to be drifting more and more into sci-fi. This involved time travel through meditation.
The Wild Wild West season 2 The Night of the Feathered Fury - clever Goldfinger-inspired story. Victor Bueono seeks a device containing the philosopher's stone which turns metals to gold. They even do the gold-painted girl (though it doesn't make sense).
The Wild Wild West season 2 The Night of the Gypsy Peril --this was cute because they had to rescue a baby white elephant. The Wild Wild West - season 2 The Night of the Tartar -the comedy has really been cranked up this season. The first 15 episodes were "James Bond in the Old West" style--but this season it is more comical. John Astin is a Russian oligarch I guess.
The Wild Wild West season 2 The Night of the Brain - felt like a return to the early part of the first season with a Bond-like villain who goes around in a steam-powered gadget-filled wheelchair so that he doesn't waste mind energy.
The Wild Wild West season 2 -The Night of the Deadly Bubble - Guy wants to save oceans from humans so he plans to release giant bubbles in the seas to cause massive tidal waves to destroy the land. Everybody has dreams.
THE WILD WILD WEST The Night of the Surreal McCoy - This was a crazy weak episode. Dr. Loveless uses paintings to transport criminals from one place to another--by some kind of teleportation that is triggered by sound vibrations. Maybe the most science fiction-y one so far. There's an amusing scene involving a gunfighter in a saloon but something just felt really off with this. Filler.
The Wild Wild West - s 2 The Night of the Colonel's Ghost - Artie gets two disguises in this one including a pretty decent Terry-Thomas impersonation.
The Wild Wild West season 2 The Night of the Deadly Blossom - ok episode that feels a little repetitive--I think they already did a story about a Chinese villain who uses rockets to sink ships but West finds a decent away of escaping a pendulum blade--you raise your self closer to the blade so you can cut your bindings before it gets too low. Something to remember when you find yourself in such a trap.
The Wild Wild West season 2 The Night of the Cadre -- most notable for filming at the same place the Star Trek episode "Arena" was made. I was hoping I would see the Gorn lying in the background somewhere. Interesting use of the mind control storyline but revised for the 19th century. A crystal that has harmonics properties is surgically inserted into a victim and when a sound is played on a silent whistle-it can make them do commands before it explodes in their head.
THE WILD WILD WEST season 2 Night of the Wolf -- This was a really good episode--a kind of Halloween story involving werewolves but really a variation on the Manchurian Candidate. Quite violent too-a few drug-injected wolves bite the (silver) bullet.
THE WILD WILD WEST - The Night of the Bogus Bandits - Dr. Loveless returns in a pretty good episode. Some Artemus Gordon humor scenes and James West gets to be killed too. I think I am nearing the end of season 2--this might be the last.
The Wild Wild West s3 ep 1 The Night of the Bubbling Death - The only thing that betrays that this was a new season episode is the different hairstyle for West. Kind of funny that when he goes to retrieve the US Declaration of Independence he casually rolls it up into a cylinder. So used to people fussing about comic book creases--not a concern in the 19th century with government documents.
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Post by kirwoodderby on Dec 14, 2022 10:01:42 GMT
Robert Conrad must've been pretty short--like Michael J. Fox short.
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Post by vrkalak on Dec 14, 2022 15:34:31 GMT
Robert Conrad must've been pretty short--like Michael J. Fox short. 5’8
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 17, 2022 7:08:33 GMT
Some people just read as taller--Herbert Lom was 5'8--I would have guessed 5'10.
THE WILD WILD WEST - The Night of the Firebrand - This one takes them all the way north to British Columbia! My neck of the woods. This had a good score actually--lively for episodic tv.
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 17, 2022 18:00:34 GMT
I also liked how his horse had a bigger role that usual in that one.
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Post by kirwoodderby on Dec 18, 2022 14:58:52 GMT
Robert Conrad must've been pretty short--like Michael J. Fox short. 5’8 Nah, don't believe it. He was 5'4" at most.
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 18, 2022 17:55:12 GMT
He can't be 5'4. For him to be Michael J Fox height would mean they would have had to cast women who are all around 5 feet. You can see his footwear has a generous heel to make him taller but he's not Mickey Rooney height. 5'8 was short for 1960s leading men though.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 21, 2023 7:16:54 GMT
"The Night of the Assassin"This episode originally aired on September 22, 1967. I first saw it in the 1990's on cable network TNT (the same time I discovered The Four Elements). I can't help but wonder what the contemporary reaction to this episode was, since it originally aired less than four years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Some thoughts: - In a nice bit of continuity, Frank Sorello, who played Mexican President Juarez in The Night of the Eccentrics, reprises his role in this one.
- In a odd bit of non-continuity, Donald Woods, who played the treacherous Senator Stephen Fenlow in The Night of the Skulls, plays Ambassador Griswold. I suspect this casting choice was a red herring, since I couldn't remember who the real mastermind was, and suspected Griswold until the truth was revealed.
- At 18:00 Col. Arsenio 'Arsenic' Barbossa (Robert Loggia) starts playing with a nutcracker right before he plans to torture Halvorsen. This analogy is a little too close for comfort if you ask me!
- The "sleeping pill" Artie gives Halvorsen at 24:45 looks like a plain M&M candy.
- At 34:25, Jim uses a bar hanging from a central wheel to slide down a zip-line, rather than using the sleeve wheel from "The Night of the Bubbling Death". It looks like this device actually works.
- At 40:06, I had forgotten that Artie was in the coffin
Finally got to this one--I didn't recognize Loggia. I thought it was him but not sure. The walnut cracking was unsettling.
I thought Artie's voice was really funny when he is doing the father gag. I thought the senator was the main suspect--they must have set it up for that.
One thing that seemed unintentionally amusing was where Jim uses the spy glass and he makes this funny squint gesture with his mouth open. I guess it's automatic thing if you squint your eye like that you have to open your mouth in a funny way but it stood out for me.
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 4, 2023 7:17:09 GMT
"The Night Dr. Loveless Died"Another excellent Loveless episode. Some thoughts: - The fire effects that begin when Jim shoots down the chandelier in the funeral home, and later during sanitarium's spontaneous combustion, look convincingly dangerous.
- At 5:29, Jim emerges through the back door into the parlor and wishes Artie, "Good Morning", implying once again that there are hidden sleeping quarters down the hall.
- What was the point of blowing up the barn door at 27:29? Why didn't Jim just open it normally?
- Another gastastic episode! First, Deuce's men launch a poison gas grenade into Arthur Tickle's house. Then a jet of anesthetic plays over Jim from inside the safe. Finally, Artie gains admittance to the sanitarium via a balloon filled with green knock-out gas.
- The leather strap that Jim "cuts" through at 44:58 has clearly already been cut through. If you pause the playback, you can see the strap starts to split before Jim even brings the blade up to it!
- Susan Oliver plays Triste, continuing the tradition of replacing Antoinette with a babe who previously appeared on Star Trek.
This one had a couple of good disguise scenes. I laughed out loud when Artie emerges out of nowhere as a French doctor to interrupt the operation. But I agree that Loveless doesn't seem himself in this one.
I thought I recognized the Orion slave girl!
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Post by alpha128 on Mar 11, 2023 1:47:35 GMT
Posted to YouTube 11 days ago as of this writing:
WILD WILD WEST like you've never seen it! Bloopers and fun facts about the best TV series ever!
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